page_title: Grandfather clock
section_title: Bornholm clocks and Mora clocks
hierarchical_section_title: Grandfather clock / Types / Bornholm clocks and Mora clocks
caption_attribution_description: English: Bornholm clock made by Edvart Sonne in Rønne, Bornholm in the late 1700s. The colour is not original, repainted around 1990 Dansk: Bornholmerur fremstillet af Edvart Sonne i Rønne, Bornholm i slutningen af 1700-tallet. Urets udsmykning er formentlig den orginale, men farve er ikke den originale. Nymalet omkring 1990
context_page_description: A grandfather clock is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres tall. The case often features elaborately carved ornamentation on the hood, which surrounds and frames the dial, or clock face. The English clockmaker William Clement is credited with the development of this form in 1670. Until the early 20th century, pendulum clocks were the world's most accurate timekeeping technology, and longcase clocks, due to their superior accuracy, served as time standards for households and businesses. Today they are kept mainly for their decorative and antique value, having been widely replaced by both analog and digital timekeeping.
context_section_description: Bornholm clocks are Danish longcase clocks and were made on Bornholm from 1745 to 1900. In Sweden a special variety of longcase clocks was made in Mora, called Mora clocks.
  Bornholm clock-making began in the 1740s when an English ship, which had longcase clocks in its hold, was stranded. They were sent for repair to a turner named Poul Ottesen Arboe in Rønne and as a result of his repair of them he learned enough about clocks to begin to make his own.
caption: Bornholm clock made by Edvart Sonne, from Rønne, Bornholm in the late 1700s
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